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In his teens, Tupac studied poetry at the Baltimore School for the Arts. This gave him a base knowledge of rhyme, rhythm and metre on which he would later built his rap songs. Read a wide range of literature. It's been said that Tupac, a high school dropout, was more well-read at the age of 20 than the average first-year student at an Ivy League college. Tupac continued to read while he served a prison sentence in As one of the most socially conscious rappers, Tupac tackled social issues such as poverty, racism, violence, police brutality and substance abuse in virtually all of his songs.

Give your song titles clever backronyms. Put more strength on what he is saying. At the end, you have to pay attention on the way he flows over to the next quatrain. His transitions are pretty good. The quatrain finishes after trying, but he keeps on rapping without taking a break. Transitions are very important. First Couplet is fairly straight forward. He rhymes birth and cursed on the first bar. He has two internal rhymes in the face of fantasies and family and then he finishes off with hearse.

You can see the use of pauses to put more stress on words one more time. The second couplet is a straight one liner. He rhymes fear with hear, but the hidden rhyme the one which actually makes it sound melodic is man and kind. Those two words act as a sound scheme, which is used to spice up the couplet and make it sound better.

The meaning behind the second couplet is huge though. You can learn how to do this here. This quatrain is simple. First bar spills over to the second one, takes a small break after the second beat, and finishes off. Again, making it sound more melodic. First couplet, you can see the fiverhymes right? First bar done with no pause, second one has a pause at the second beat.

Goes on to mix, which spills into the last bar, where it rhymes with tricks. But his family moved around a lot while he was a kid Bastin, J. He eventually ended up in the Bay Area California alone and spent his first two years there homeless u. Some folks think not because he's been dead and they think biggie is better.

Machiavelli was an Italian war strategist who faked ones death to fool his enemies. Pac was a big fan of him and read many books of his and took part from his strategies. Pac was cremated after he was "killed". Some people feel that he's controversial but I feel that we can learn something from Tupac's life.

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His mother, Afeni Shakur changed his name in to Tupac Amaru which means "shining serpent" in the Inca language, and Shakur, Arabic for "thankful to God." He was frequently called; 2Pac, and Pac.

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As I was writing this, news broke that the Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs had survived an attempt on his life in Brooklyn that left two people wounded. "They tried to kill Tupac," he told the New York Post. Sep 13, · Tupac Shakur was a very influential person in 20th century USA. He was born on June 16, in Brooklyn New York, and died on September 13, in Las Vegas Nevada (unknown author, no title, no page).

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How to Rap Like: 2Pac. 6. Who is 2Pac Tupac Shakur(2Pac) is one of the best selling music artists in the world. He has sold over 75 million records world wide, excelled as an actor, starring in a number of blockbuster movies and was and will always be a legend and an inspiration to the rap community. 1 Method of Writing Killer Rap. Tupac started writing poems and began writing lyrics. He quit school in when he moved to Marin City, California near the Oakland area. There Tupac learned about street life and began to sell drugs. In Marin City, he joined a gang and became friends with Shock G, a leading underground rapper.